By Mayur Dewailkar With the increasing adoption of hybrid cloud strategy in enterprise IT environments, users are finding themselves struggling with the fragmentation of data across on-premises and cloud infrastructures. Customers often have to deal with multiple interfaces to monitor their data and get meaningful operational and business insights. Commvault foresaw this happening several years […]
Backup and recovery processes now include artificial intelligence and machine learning that can help optimize your business. Those processes can also create a finely-tuned IT environment. Backup and recovery just became cool.
By Nigel Tozer Last year was marked as the year of ransomware and data breaches, with both topics making the headlines in mainstream media. Also making news was the topic of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that, to some degree, links these two topics together. Laptops, not data centers, are often the entry-point into an […]
By Nigel Tozer This blog was also published at https://betanews.com Here are my predictions for what will happen in a world when the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is “live” – out in the wild so to speak. The European Union’s mythical caged dragon of GDPR is set loose to wreak havoc upon mere mortal humans […]
By Greg Bennett If you’ve ever seen any of the ESPN “30 for 30” documentaries (which I highly recommend), you know they all start the same way: “What if I told you…” followed by a story of struggle, heartbreak, perseverance and/or redemption that ultimately changes your perspective. Or even offers new insights into an event […]
Disaster Recovery has become a major conversation point among IT leaders lately with the advancements in ransom and malware and the impact natural disasters have had across the globe.What happens if your business is struck by a real disaster?
By Chris Powell Ever since I met Robert Swan, I have been inspired by his message of individuals doing small things that collectively can make an impact on our climate and environment. Robert does this by raising awareness of the threats posed to Antarctica and by engaging individuals, governments and companies around the world to think […]
By Scott Britton Government agencies and their private contractors can now use the Commvault Data Platform to support data protection in Amazon government clouds. Commvault now helps our government customers to move, manage and use data on: The secure cloud built for the intelligence community that can operate with workloads up to top secret. AWS Secret Region […]
By David Orban As part of an ongoing series that focuses on backup-related issues, our Commvault experts weigh in. Let’s be clear: Virtualization doesn’t have to break your backup strategy. In his blog “Why Virtualization STILL Breaks Backup,” George Crump of StorageSwiss.com points out that many IT teams still remark that protecting the virtual infrastructure […]
By Chris Powell While it seems we just closed the books on GO 2017, here we are: registration is now open for Commvault GO 2018. In less than six months, we will host our partners, customers and prospects in Nashville, Tenn. for two days of in-depth insight into Commvault’s products and solutions. With the support of our partners, […]
By Edwin Galang There is a reason that 72 percent of Azure customers1 plan to take advantage of Azure Stack in the next three years. Azure Stack promises to bring the agility and innovation of Azure to customers’ on-premises environments, using a single management paradigm and enabling real hybrid cloud scenarios. While there are many advantages […]
By Penny Gralewski As part of an ongoing series that focuses on backup-related issues, our Commvault experts weigh in. Cloud backup won’t break your IT strategy. While integrating the cloud into your backup strategy can introduce a number of challenges and pitfalls, if you correctly manage cloud backup it can actually help you meet your […]
By Nigel Tozer This isn’t another story about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, although it is where I’ll start. With the recent revelations surrounding Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, it’s easy to forget that Facebook was born from a dispute. Who was telling the truth decided its fate, and as we all know, that decision fell in […]
By Commvault Many organizations have adopted some form of cloud computing. Most are using public cloud providers of some sort to archive data, helping ensure sufficient space in their production systems. Many others also are utilising public cloud providers for secondary copies of backup and storage for tape replacement. So exactly what happens when a […]
By Commvault In the last of this three-part series, we will address strategy, direction and the much misunderstood topic of policy. As with the first two posts, we’ve provided a set of questions you can answer as true or false to gain a sense of where your organisation is on your journey to information excellence. Do […]
By Chris Powell Saturday was World Backup Day, our annual reminder to people and business owners to protect their data. It occurs every March 31 (the day before April Fools’ Day) to keep data preservation top of mind and to not – wait for it – look like a fool. All this noise about backups got me […]
By Lance Shaw Some organizations might initially scoff at the idea that existing data backup processes are broken. Some might even say, “How could that be possible? I have backup solutions in place for my various applications across different locations. If something else comes along that I need to protect, I simply go out and […]